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2024: Former top managers of BFG-loan bank received real terms for embezzlement of 22 billion rubles

On March 18, 2024, the City Prosecutor's Office Moscow announced that the Dorogomilovsky District Court had sentenced former top managers of BFG-credit bank. They received real prison sentences for embezzlement of 22 billion. rubles

A criminal case was opened against residents of the capital, 44-year-old Alexei Gorlin, 67-year-old Mikhail Doroginin, 45-year-old Denis Puresev and 42-year-old Yulia Finkelstein. They were found guilty of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (misappropriation or embezzlement).

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It was established that the deputy chairman of BFG-credit bank Puresev, the head of the credit department Doroginin, the deputy head of the department of financial institutions Gorlin and the deputy head of the credit department Finkelstein, together with accomplices, the criminal case against whom was separated into a separate proceeding, were part of an organized group. According to the investigation, from 2014 to 2016, the defendants ensured the issuance of deliberately bad loans to controlled legal entities, as well as the transfer of funds to the accounts of controlled organizations to other banks. Subsequently, the accomplices disposed of the stolen money at their discretion.

The court sentenced Gorlin, Puresev and Doroginin to 7 years in prison each with fines of 1 million rubles. All of them will serve their sentences in penal colonies of the general regime. Finkelstein was sentenced to 5 years in prison with a fine of 1 million rubles with a delay in serving his sentence until the child reaches the age of 14. All persons involved in the case are also deprived of the right to engage in activities related to the performance of organizational, administrative and administrative functions in commercial organizations for a period of 3 years.^[1]

2021: Investigative Committee opens new criminal case against former executives and shareholders of the bank

In May 2021, the Investigative Committee opened a new criminal case against the former leaders and shareholders of BFG-Credit Bank, accused of multi-billion dollar embezzlement. According to the investigation, the suspects, among whom was film producer Yuri Glotser, laundered more than 1.5 billion rubles, transferring them to the accounts of Cypriot and British offshore companies, and then used them to purchase real estate. At the same time, the amount of the thefts themselves calculated by the investigation has already exceeded 22 billion rubles.

2020

A man was detained who extorted 30 million rubles for the release of Denis Puresev

In November 2020, operatives detained a man who extorted 30 million rubles. from the wife of the former banker "BFG-Credit" Denis Puresev, who was arrested in the embezzlement case, for allegedly assisting in the release of her husband from custody.

The man suggested that Puresev's wife change the measure of restraint for her husband for 30 million rubles.

Puresev's wife did not want to and reported this to the police. On December 2, under the conspiratorial escort of operatives in the Black market restaurant in Moscow, she handed over 15 million rubles to the man. After that, he was detained red-handed.

The Basmanny District Court of the capital arrested the former deputy chairman of BFG-Credit bank Denis Puresev, who, according to media reports, received the status of a lawyer in 2019. Puresev is charged with two episodes of embezzlement, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

The court arrested in absentia the ex-head of the bank "BFG-credit"

The Basmanny District Court arrested in absentia the former chairman of the board of BFG-Credit bank Yevgeny Maftsir, TASS reported on November 12, 2020, citing court spokeswoman Irina Sofinskaya. Maftsir is accused of particularly large embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code). Read more here.

Arrest of property of top managers in the case of embezzlement of tens of billions

At the end of August 2020, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal rejected the complaints of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) and two former leaders of BFG-Credit, leaving their property under arrest. Read more here.

Detention of three bank managers

In June 2020, former employees of the bank's credit department Mikhail Doroginin, Alexei Gorlin and Yulia Finkelstein were detained on suspicion of embezzlement at the BFG-Credit commercial bank in Moscow. They are suspected of embezzlement of at least 12.9 billion rubles, said Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative of the TFR. They were charged with embezzlement of bank funds on an especially large scale, organized by a group, using their official position (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to Inetrfax in the Basmanny Court of Moscow, the accused were extended the detention period to 72 hours, the issue of detention will be decided on June 18-19.

Earlier, the owners and chairman of the board of BFG-Credit bank Yuri Glotser, Yevgeny Maftsir and Pavel Doinov, who fled outside Russia, were put on the wanted list. They are suspected of organizing the theft of bank funds in 2014-2016.

2019: Investigator who received bribe in ex-bank shareholder case sentenced to 5 years

In November 2019, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced to five years former investigator of the Investigative Committee Alexander Sorokin in the case of extortion of a bribe of $100 thousand.

Sorokin was detained red-handed in December 2016, at the first interrogation he pleaded guilty.

The investigator demanded a bribe from the shareholder of BFG-Credit Bank Tamara Khoroshilova for recognizing her as a victim in the case of the withdrawal of 2.3 billion rubles from the bank. During a conversation with Khoroshilova's lawyer in his office, Sorokin wrote a note on a sheet of paper with a hint of "providing material assistance," and at the next meeting he drew the number 100 with his hand on the wall and made it clear that we were talking about dollars.

The lawyer turned to the FSB and soon handed over to the investigator a package from the Perekrestok store with marked bills in his Chevrolet car. After Sorokin, FSB officers blocked.

Sorokin was detained by FSB M operatives Sergei Nikityuk and Konstantin Strukov. They themselves were subsequently convicted in the raider seizure case.

Bank shareholders Yuri Glotser and Tamara Khoroshilova are in conflict with each other: Khoroshilova, who kept $40 million in the bank, tried to return the money and put the banker in jail. A criminal case was opened against Glotser on an attempted fraud in the amount of 11.7 billion rubles.

2016

License Revocation

Since July 27, 2016, the Bank of Russia has revoked the license from BFG-Credit Bank. The bank was one of the 100 largest Russian banks in terms of assets, it completely lost capital.

BFG-Credit introduced a temporary administration

On April 12, 2016, the Central Bank introduced a temporary administration to BFG-Credit Bank for six months in order to examine its financial condition. As a source in the bank told RBC, the reason for the introduction of the interim administration was problems with the fulfillment of the Central Bank's requirements to add additional reserves in the amount of 3 billion rubles. on the loan portfolio. An acquaintance of the chairman of the board of the bank Pavel Doinov confirmed the information about the regulator's demand to add additional reserves, but said that the required amount amounted to 6 billion rubles. He also clarified that the bank credited development projects, which most likely raised questions from the Central Bank. "Often, development companies fall under the criteria of companies with no signs of real activity," the source says. According to a source in the bank, it is difficult for shareholders to find an amount to add additional reserves, but they are trying to solve^[2]

The volume of corporate loans issued by the bank is 51 billion rubles. The share of problem and bad loans in the bank is very significant - 14.1%, the rating agency AK&M said in a statement. At the same time, the agency draws attention to the fact that in February the bank had a sharp increase in reserves for possible losses and collateral for placed funds - by 23 and 18%, respectively. "The bank explains this not only by issuing new loans, but also by transferring old ones to higher risk groups," the agency said in a press release.

The bank is known for working with major state-owned television companies - Channel One, VGTRK, Russia Today. A source close to him told about this and confirmed another source - in the bank itself. The funds of television companies in BFG-Credit amounted to about 6 billion rubles, a source close to him says. This figure converges with the bank's latest IFRS reporting for 2014, which states that media companies accounted for 6.5 billion rubles.

Media companies have seized most of these funds in recent months, says a source close to the bank. According to reporting data from the beginning of the year to March, the amount of funds in the accounts of companies decreased by 4 billion, to 20.6 billion rub.​

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